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Magdalena Gamayo is a 88-year-old textile weaver from Ilocos Norte, Philippines who was awarded the 2012 Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan for her mastery of traditional abel weaving techniques. She learned the art of weaving from her aunt at age 16 and continues to arrange threads on her loom despite being nearly blind. Gamayo has taught herself traditional Philippine patterns like Binakol, inuritan, kusikos, and sinan-sabong that exemplify the best of Filipino abel weaving traditions.

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Group 5

Magdalena Gamayo is a 88-year-old textile weaver from Ilocos Norte, Philippines who was awarded the 2012 Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan for her mastery of traditional abel weaving techniques. She learned the art of weaving from her aunt at age 16 and continues to arrange threads on her loom despite being nearly blind. Gamayo has taught herself traditional Philippine patterns like Binakol, inuritan, kusikos, and sinan-sabong that exemplify the best of Filipino abel weaving traditions.

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Magdalena Gamayo

(August 13,1924)
-Textile Weaver Ilocano
-Pinili, Ilocos Norte
-2012 Gawad sa Manlilikha ng bayan
awardee
-She is a master weaver
-The abel-weaving tradition in ilocos
remains strong, and there are no better
artists who exemplify the best of
Filipino abel weaving tradition than
Magdalena Gamayo
• She was 16 when se learn the art
weaving from her aunt
• Even though Magdalena is already
88 years old, her eyesight still
holds true and she still takes care
of arranging the threads on the
loom.
•Magdalena has taught herself
the traditional patterns of
Binakol, inuritan ( geometric
design), kusikos (spiral forms
similar to oranges) and sinan-
sabong (flowers)
Blue earth
(2015) Binakol, inuritan
kusikos sinan-sabong
THANK YOU!
• Palin
• Gargar
• Bokingo

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